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What is a liquid neural network, really?

TechCrunch

The initial research papers date back to 2018, but for most, the notion of liquid networks (or liquid neural networks) is a new one. It was “Liquid Time-constant Networks,” published at the tail end of 2020, that put the work on other researchers’ radar. Everyone talks about scaling up their network,” Hasani notes. “We

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Nigerian fintech of the unbanked Bankly raises $2M led by Vault and Flutterwave

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Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria. In the absence of a banking system nearby or a disregard for one, the unbanked resort to these traditional systems because they work completely offline.

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FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked

TechCrunch

One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of identity documents. Zimbabwean serial entrepreneur Victor Mapunga founded FlexID in 2018 out of his frustration with the banking system.

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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

The Parallax

If you want to channel those feelings into getting safer in 2018, follow these seven steps, garnered from how-tos we’ve published this year, to better secure your digital life. Make sure your home Wi-Fi router has been set up with WPA2, and create a guest network for your friends when they come to visit.

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Tetrate, the company born out of Istio’s open-source app networking project, raises $40 million

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Tetrate , the company commercializing an open-source networking project that allows for easier data sharing across different applications, has raised $40 million. Founded in 2018, Tetrate formally launched in 2019 with a $12.5 Platform One works with the most critical systems across the DoD.

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Zocdoc founder returns with Shadow, an app that finds lost dogs

TechCrunch

and millions of those end up in shelters where they aren’t always reunited with their owners, due to their lack of identification or a microchip. A new mobile app, Shadow , aims to tackle this problem by leveraging a combination of a volunteer network and A.I. the Dallas shelter system and others. Image Credits: Shadow.

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Okendo raises $5.3M to help D2C brands ween themselves off of Big Tech customer data

TechCrunch

Gathering more customer reviews data directly from consumers has been the first part of the puzzle with its product that helps brands manage and showcase customer ratings, reviews, user-generated media and product questions. “Most D2C brands are still very dependent on big tech,” CEO Matthew Goodman tells TechCrunch. .